CONFIGURING INTERNET PRINTING FOR WINDOWS® 5 - 2
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Windows® 95/98/Me users can send print jobs using t he IPP
protocol via Windows® 2000 computer, provided that the
Microsoft Internet Print Services software is installed on t he
client PC, Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed and
running on the server and that the client PC is using version 4
or later of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Brother Internet Print General Information
The BIP software is installed using a standard Windows® 95/98/Me/
2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 Installation Wizard. It creates a virtual
port on the Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 PC
that operates in a similar way to the standard L PT1 pr inte r po rt fr om
the application program point of view. The user can use the
Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 Print Manager
to create a printer that uses this port along with a standa rd Windows®
95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 compatible pri nter. Any
Windows® 95/98/Me/2000/XP and Windows NT®4.0 applications
program can therefore print to this printer (and hence to the virtual
port) without modification or operational procedure.
When a job is printed to the BIP virtual port, it is actually MIME-
encoded (converted to a standard Internet E-mail message) and sent
out to a Brother print server at the remote location. This means that
BIP is compatible with most common E-mail software p ackages. The
only requirement is that the E-mail server be capable of s ending E-
mail message over the Internet.
In more detail, the procedure works in the following way:
■If you are connected to a Local Area Network, the E-mail message
is passed to the E-mail server, which in turn transmits the
message out over the Internet using the SMTP protocol (simple
mail transport protocol) to the remote print server.
■If you are connecting via a modem directly to an In ternet Service
Provider (ISP), the ISP handles the routing of the E-mail to the
remote print server.